This chapter focuses on theories of embodiment and relevant empirical findings. The embodied appr... more This chapter focuses on theories of embodiment and relevant empirical findings. The embodied approach in cognitive science claims that cognition is based on action. It argues that external stimuli evoke sensorimotor activations in the observer. Specially, it has been suggested that during action observation, corresponding motor programs are activated in the observer. This is supported by the discovery of mirror neurons and evidence of interactions between perception and action production. Moreover, it has been argued that humans represent other people’s intentions and beliefs in an interpersonal setting. Humans seem to be able to automatically integrate other individuals’ (anticipated) behaviour into their own (re-)actions, which allows the prediction of other people’s actions and fast and flexible reactions in social situations.
In recent years, researchers have made many new discoveries in the Weld of social interaction and... more In recent years, researchers have made many new discoveries in the Weld of social interaction and have attempted to understand the mechanisms of interpersonal coordination. This research is marked by two streams: On the one hand, there are attempts to explain spontaneous, incidental interpersonal coordination in terms of the behavioral dynamics perspective, and on the other, to explain instructed, intentional interpersonal coordination in terms of joint action. Other paradigms fall somewhere between incidental and intentional coordination, e.g. task sharing paradigms. The present study has two major objectives. First, we wanted to explore to what extent a dyadic scenario for bimanual coordination mimics typical signatures of bimanual coordination performance as obtained in the classical individual scenario. Second, if such mimicking is obtained, we wanted to investigate the kind of information on which the coordination between the two individuals may be grounded. To do so, we used a bimanual aiming task, which enabled us to assess measurements of two levels of coordination: global (operating over longer periods of time) and local (operating on each particular trial). In Experiment 1, this task was performed in an individual and in a dyadic setting. In the dyadic scenario, we observed strong global coordination and weak local coordination. In Experiment 2, we replicated this pattern and showed that diVerent kinds of feedback had no impact on interpersonal coordination. Based on these Wndings, we propose that interpersonal coordination in a non-rhythmic choice response task is based on weak interpersonal coordination.
This chapter focuses on theories of embodiment and relevant empirical findings. The embodied appr... more This chapter focuses on theories of embodiment and relevant empirical findings. The embodied approach in cognitive science claims that cognition is based on action. It argues that external stimuli evoke sensorimotor activations in the observer. Specially, it has been suggested that during action observation, corresponding motor programs are activated in the observer. This is supported by the discovery of mirror neurons and evidence of interactions between perception and action production. Moreover, it has been argued that humans represent other people’s intentions and beliefs in an interpersonal setting. Humans seem to be able to automatically integrate other individuals’ (anticipated) behaviour into their own (re-)actions, which allows the prediction of other people’s actions and fast and flexible reactions in social situations.
In recent years, researchers have made many new discoveries in the Weld of social interaction and... more In recent years, researchers have made many new discoveries in the Weld of social interaction and have attempted to understand the mechanisms of interpersonal coordination. This research is marked by two streams: On the one hand, there are attempts to explain spontaneous, incidental interpersonal coordination in terms of the behavioral dynamics perspective, and on the other, to explain instructed, intentional interpersonal coordination in terms of joint action. Other paradigms fall somewhere between incidental and intentional coordination, e.g. task sharing paradigms. The present study has two major objectives. First, we wanted to explore to what extent a dyadic scenario for bimanual coordination mimics typical signatures of bimanual coordination performance as obtained in the classical individual scenario. Second, if such mimicking is obtained, we wanted to investigate the kind of information on which the coordination between the two individuals may be grounded. To do so, we used a bimanual aiming task, which enabled us to assess measurements of two levels of coordination: global (operating over longer periods of time) and local (operating on each particular trial). In Experiment 1, this task was performed in an individual and in a dyadic setting. In the dyadic scenario, we observed strong global coordination and weak local coordination. In Experiment 2, we replicated this pattern and showed that diVerent kinds of feedback had no impact on interpersonal coordination. Based on these Wndings, we propose that interpersonal coordination in a non-rhythmic choice response task is based on weak interpersonal coordination.
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